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Which of these pictures does not belong?

Why do we build houses? So that people can have a place to live: it’s almost too obvious to state. You would assume, then, that the number of housing units we have roughly corresponds with the total population. And you would be right: nationwide, the ratio of housing units to population has stayed at roughly [...]

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Chicago sees slower population decline in ’09

The Chicago-Joliet-Naperville metropolitan area lost 40,000 residents in 2009, compared to over 77,000 residents in 2006, new Census data show. The data shows a broader pattern of people moving away from sunbelt cities like Orlando, Las Vegas, and Phoenix, which had seen population increases last decade. New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Pittsburgh join Chicago [...]

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